Lavender and aqua bunny theme baby shower

Theme: Lavender/aqua/grey bunny theme

Occasion: Baby Girl Baby Shower

Styled by: Ruby, Heidee, Leslie, Charmy, Rosa & Alice
Calligraphy and Dream Art by: thealicelineart
Location: Mary Lane Cafe, Pasadena, California

Photography: thealicelinephotography

Hi everyone! Wanted to share a bunny themed baby shower my friends and I put together for our dear friend Betty over the weekend. We handmade most of the items in the photo including: the bunny banner, pom pom mobile, pom pom wands for the table, watercolor wash place cards, menu, and dream art and the cake decorations, a 1-10 fruits book for the baby and games (not pictured). We loved the way it turned out and wanted to share the photos with you. 

Mary Lane Cafe baked the triple berry cake. We decorated with lavender roses, white hydrangeas, white roses and other little flowers (lavender flowers from a florist and the other flowers from Trader Joes. The bunny ears are made out of a total of 8 lavender/magenta pipe cleaners: two pipe cleaners twisted together for each side, so easy and pretty!

Pom pom mobile - materials used - yarn, light aqua, teal, dark purple, lavender tulle, sewing wood ring wrapped in ribbon and braided yarn to hang the mobile. There are lots of pom pom tutorials out there and we wrapped these around 75-100 times around our iphones, vertically and horizontally to create different sizes.

For the party favors, our friend Leslie put together two different little bags with decaffeinated teas utilizing ingredients like chia seeds, goji berries, dates in one satchet and a blend of ginseng, red dates and goji berries in the other satchet. All baby bump friendly. 

The bunny banner was made of cardstock and embossed with green/teal glitter recollections and magenta ranger embossing powder and written using the ranger embossing pen and the darice tool for drying. 

dream art lettered in ecoline watercolor accented with 3 types of glitter and embossing powder for the word sea.

Calligraphy menu written with gouache ink with hunt101 nib on watercolor wash canson paper

watercolor wash placecards lettered with gouache ink and hunt101 nib

A few friends flew down from San Francisco just to celebrate our mama-to-be. :)

Florals and vintage tea cups to decorate the table, along with bunny folded napkins. 

Our pretty mama-to-be at 33 weeks with her cute baby bump. 

Rose lemonade was the refreshing beverage of the day. 

Our papa-to-be drove 4 hours to stop by for a surprise visit. :)

Concentrating hard on the mama and baby animal game. Much harder than anyone imagined!

my favorite baby and toddler science books

hi mamas and friends,
i am a children's book fanatic. i love buying books for my children and i love giving books for birthday and holiday gifts. one of my childhood dreams is to write and illustrate one, hopefully some day i will. since my husband is a scientist and my dad is a retired aerospace engineer, i wanted to expose my little ones to science books.

here are my some of my favorites to buy and give.

for the older toddlers, 3 and up
women in science - 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world by Rachel Ignotofsky - my four year old loves this book. we read about a scientist every night before bed. this is for older toddlers, but it's never too early to expose your daughters and sons to strong, intelligent women. highly recommend.

rosie revere, engineer by andrea beaty - a nice message in this book. you only fail if you quit. this is a little long for my toddler to sit through when she was 3 years, but i think she can probably sit through it now.  we haven't pulled this one back out in awhile since we rotate our books.

ada twist, scientist by andrea beaty -  I bought this one but haven't taken it out yet. Will probably gift this to my daughter for xmas this year.

i am jane goodall by brad meltzer -  we also read about jane goodall in the women in science just last night. she wasn't a traditional scientist, but she worked and lived with the chimpanzees to study them. my kids are fascinated by animals.

i am albert einstein by brad meltzer - brad meltzer has a whole series of books about inspiring heroes. albert einstein is one of them. he was a dreamer that thought in pictures instead of words. he went on to become one of the greatest scientists in history.

the girl who thought in pictures: the story of dr. temple grandin by Julia Finley Mosca - i have not yet read this book but it looks promising. its about a girl diagnosed with autism who became a scientist.

for younger tots:
baby loves aerospace engineering by ruth spiro: was so excited to discover this book since my dad is a retired aerospace engineer. my toddler loves this book, especially the birds and the rockets. he enjoys reading it and flapping his "wings".

baby loves quarks by ruth spiro: we have this one too. you learn about quarks, protons, electrons and atoms and molecules.

quantum physics for babies by chris ferrie - my daughter loved this book when she was very little. she learned about protons and neutrons and electrons. we should probably rotate it back into our current reads again to see how they like it now.

not science related but math:
introductory calculus for infants by Omi M. Inouye - this is a fun book for any math lover. 

Hope you enjoy this list. Let me know if you have any other favorites.

Cheers,
~Alice